An enema or purifying treatment using liquid in Ayurvedic medicine, part of the traditional cleansing therapies in Indian wellness practices.
From Sanskrit 'basti,' one of the five main purification techniques (panchakarma) in Ayurveda. The word has been used for over 2,000 years in Hindu medical texts.
Basti is one of the world's oldest medical procedures—Ayurvedic physicians were performing detailed enema therapies with specific herbs and oils millennia before modern Western medicine even existed!
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